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ANIMAL STORIES. Selected and edited by Robert Cochrane, editor of Great Thinkers and Workers, Romance of Industry and Invention, &c. Profusely Illustrated. 2/6

A selection of varied true stories of animal life, illustrating sagacity, instinct, the almost human traits of monkeys, speaking powers of parrots, the usefulness and cleverness of many dogs, horses, elephants, and hairbreadth escapes from lions, tigers, bears, and snakes. The examples are drawn from a wide field, and the narratives are brightly written.

ELSIE’S MAGICIAN. By Fred Whishaw, author of Boris the Bear Hunter, A Tsar’s Gratitude, &c. With ten Illustrations by Lewis Baumer. 2/6

A pretty story told with real humour and vivacity of how a little London girl managed to provide for her mother a much-needed holiday abroad, and brought together a father and daughter who had been alienated for many years to the sorrow and misfortune of both.

THE ROMANCE OF COMMERCE. By J. Macdonald Oxley, LL.B., B.A. With fifteen Illustrations. 2/6

‘Sure to fascinate young lads fond of tales of adventure and daring.’—Evening News.

ABIGAIL TEMPLETON; or Brave Efforts. A Story of To-day. By Emma Marshall, author of Under Salisbury Spire, &c. With four Illustrations by J. Finnemore. 2/6

‘A bright and happy narrative.... Told with great spirit.’—Birmingham Gazette.

THE ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY AND INVENTION. Selected by Robert Cochrane, editor of Great Thinkers and Workers, Beneficent and Useful Lives, Adventure and Adventurers, Recent Travel and Adventure, Good and Great Women, Heroic Lives, &c. With 34 process and woodcut Illustrations. 2/6

‘It is hard to say which chapter is the best, for each seems more interesting than the last.’—The Queen.

‘A most interesting and inspiring book.’—Colliery Guardian.

‘We can recommend this work as at once instructive and interesting.’—New Age.

THROUGH THICK AND THIN: The Story of a School Campaign. By Andrew Home, author of From Fag to Monitor, Disturbers of the Peace, &c. With four Illustrations by W. Rainey. 2/6

‘This is just the kind of book for boys to rave over; it does not cram moral axioms down their throats, the characters act them instead.’—Glasgow Daily Mail.

PLAYMATES: A Story for Boys and Girls. By L. T. Meade. With six Illustrations by G. Nicolet. 2/6

‘The charm of Mrs Meade’s stories for children is well sustained in this pretty and instructive tale.’—Liverpool Mercury.

OUTSKERRY: The Story of an Island. By Helen Waters. With four Illustrations by R. Burns. 2/6

‘The diversion provided is varied beyond expectation (and indeed belief). We read of an “Arabian Night’s Entertainment,” but here is enough for an Arctic night.’—The Times.

‘There’ll be more than one dead corpse amongst you afore you can say knife, mark me!’ From The ‘Rover’s’ Quest, by Hugh St Leger; price 3s. 6d. Page 91.

WHITE TURRETS. By Mrs Molesworth, author of Carrots, Olivia, &c. With four Illustrations by W. Rainey. 2/6

‘A charming story.... A capital antidote to the unrest that inspires young folks that seek for some great thing to do, while the great thing for them is at their hand and at their home.’—Scotsman.

HUGH MELVILLE’S QUEST: a Boy’s Adventures in the Days of the Armada. By F. M. Holmes. With four Illustrations by W. Boucher. 2/6

‘A refreshing, stirring story ... and one sure to delight young boys and young girls too.’—Spectator.

ELOCUTION, a Book for Reciters and Readers. Edited by R. C. H. Morison. 2/6

‘No elocutionist’s library can be said to be complete without this neatly bound volume of 500 pages.... An introduction on the art of elocution is a gem of conciseness and intellectual teaching.’—Era.

‘One of the best books of its kind in the English language.’—Glasgow Citizen.

VANISHED, or the Strange Adventures of Arthur Hawkesleigh. By David Ker. Illustrated by W. Boucher. 2/6

‘It must be ranked high amongst its kind.’—Spectator.

‘A quite entrancing tale of adventure.’—Athenæum.

THISTLE AND ROSE. By Amy Walton. Illustrated by Robert Barnes. 2/6

‘Is as desirable a present to make to a girl as any one could wish.’—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

ADVENTURE AND ADVENTURERS; being True Tales of Daring, Peril, and Heroism. With Illustrations. 2/6

‘The narratives are as fascinating as fiction.’—British Weekly.

BLACK, WHITE, AND GRAY: a Story of Three Homes. By Amy Walton, author of White Lilac, A Pair of Clogs, &c. With four Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 2/6

OUT OF REACH: a Story. By Esmè Stuart, author of Through the Flood, A Little Brown Girl, &c. With four Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 2/6

‘The story is a very good one, and the book can be recommended for girls’ reading.’—Standard.

IMOGEN, or Only Eighteen. By Mrs Molesworth. With four Illustrations by H. A. Bone. 2/6

‘The book is an extremely clever one.’—Daily Chronicle.

‘A readable and very pretty story.’—Black and White.

THE LOST TRADER, or the Mystery of the Lombardy. By Henry Frith, author of The Cruise of the ‘Wasp,’ The Log of the ‘Bombastes,’ &c. With four Illustrations by W. Boucher. 2/6

‘Mr Frith writes good sea-stories, and this is the best of them that we have read.’—Academy.

BASIL WOOLLCOMBE, MIDSHIPMAN. By Arthur Lee Knight, author of The Adventures of a Midshipmite, &c. With Frontispiece by W. S. Stacey, and other Illustrations. 2/6

THE NEXT-DOOR HOUSE. By Mrs Molesworth. With six Illustrations by W. Hatherell. 2/6

‘I venture to predict for it as loving a welcome as that received by the inimitable Carrots.’—Manchester Courier.

COSSACK AND CZAR. By David Ker, author of The Boy Slave in Bokhara, The Wild Horseman of the Pampas, &c. With original Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 2/6

‘There is not an uninteresting line in it.’—Spectator.

THROUGH THE FLOOD, the Story of an Out-of-the-way Place. By Esmè Stuart. With Illustrations. 2/6

‘A bright story of two girls, and shows how goodness rather than beauty in a face can heal old strifes.’—Friendly Leaves.

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG. By Mrs O’Reilly, author of Joan and Jerry, Phœbe’s Fortunes, &c. With four Illustrations by H. A. Bone. 2/6

‘A delightfully natural and attractive story.’—Journal of Education.

ROSE AND LAVENDER. By the author of Laddie, Miss Toosey’s Mission, &c. With four original Illustrations by Herbert A. Bone. 2/6

‘A brightly-written tale, the characters in which, taken from humble life, are sketched with lifelike naturalness.’—Manchester Examiner.

JOAN AND JERRY. By Mrs O’Reilly, author of Sussex Stories, &c. With four original Illustrations by Herbert A. Bone. 2/6

‘An unusually satisfactory story for girls.’—Manchester Guardian.

THE YOUNG RANCHMEN, or Perils of Pioneering in the Wild West. By Charles R. Kenyon. With four original Illustrations by W. S. Stacey, and other Illustrations. 2/6

MEMOIR OF WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS. With Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers, and Supplemental Chapter. 15th edition. With Portraits and Illustrations. 2/6

POPULAR RHYMES OF SCOTLAND. By Robert Chambers. 2/6

TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH. By Robert Chambers. New Edition. With Illustrations. 2/6

GOOD AND GREAT WOMEN: a Book for Girls. Comprises brief lives of Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Mrs Beecher-Stowe, Jenny Lind, Charlotte Brontë, Mrs Hemans, Dorothy Pattison. Numerous Illustrations. 2/6

‘A brightly written volume, full to the brim of interesting and instructive matter; and either as reader, reward, or library book, is equally suitable.’—Teachers’ Aid.

LIVES OF LEADING NATURALISTS. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Illustrated. 2/6

‘Popular and interesting by the skilful manner in which notices of the lives of distinguished naturalists, from John Ray and Francis Willoughby to Charles Darwin, are interwoven with the methodical exposition of the progress of the science to which they are devoted.’—Scotsman.

HISTORY OF THE REBELLION OF 1745-6. By Robert Chambers. New Edition, with Index and Illustrations. 2/6

‘There is not to be found anywhere a better account of the events of ’45 than that given here.’—Newcastle Chronicle.

BENEFICENT AND USEFUL LIVES. Comprising Lord Shaftesbury, George Peabody, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Besant, Samuel Morley, Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr Arnold of Rugby, &c. By R. Cochrane. With numerous Illustrations. 2/6

‘Nothing could be better than the author’s selection of facts setting forth the beneficent lives of those generous men in the narrow compass which the capacity of the volume allows.’—School Board Chronicle.

GREAT THINKERS AND WORKERS; being the Lives of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Armstrong, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Sir Titus Salt, W. M. Thackeray, Sir Henry Bessemer, John Ruskin, James Nasmyth, Charles Kingsley, Builders of the Forth Bridge, &c. With numerous Illustrations. 2/6

‘One of the most fitting presents for a thoughtful boy that we have come across.’—Review of Reviews.

RECENT TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. Comprising Stanley and the Congo, Lieutenant Greely, Joseph Thomson, Livingstone, Lady Brassey, Vambéry, Burton, &c. Illustrated. Cloth. 2/6

‘It is wonderful how much that is of absorbing interest has been packed into this small volume.’—Scotsman.

LITERARY CELEBRITIES; being brief biographies of Wordsworth, Campbell, Moore, Jeffrey, and Macaulay. Illustrated. 2/6

SONGS OF SCOTLAND prior to Burns, with the Tunes, edited by Robert Chambers, LL.D. With Illustrations. 2/6

This volume embodies the whole of the pre-Burnsian songs of Scotland that possess merit and are presentable, along with the music; each accompanied by its own history.

GREAT HISTORIC EVENTS. The Conquest of India, Indian Mutiny, French Revolution, the Crusades, the Conquest of Mexico, Napoleon’s Russian Campaign. Illustrated. 2/6

HISTORICAL CELEBRITIES. Comprising lives of Oliver Cromwell, Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Wellington. Illustrated. 2/6

‘The story of their life-work is told in such a way as to teach important historical, as well as personal, lessons bearing upon the political history of this country.’—Schoolmaster.

STORIES OF REMARKABLE PERSONS. The Herschels, Mary Somerville, Sir Walter Scott, A. T. Stewart, &c. By William Chambers, LL.D. 2/6

Embraces about two dozen lives, and the biographical sketches are freely interspersed with anecdotes, so as to make it popular and stimulating reading for both young and old.

STORIES OF OLD FAMILIES. By W. Chambers, LL.D. 2/6

The Setons—Lady Jean Gordon—Countess of Nithsdale—Lady Grisell Baillie—Grisell Cochrane—the Keiths—Lady Grange—Lady Jane Douglas—Story of Wedderburn—Story of Erskine—Countess of Eglintoun—Lady Forbes—the Dalrymples—Montrose—Buccleuch Family—Argyll Family, &c.

YOUTH’S COMPANION AND COUNSELLOR. By William Chambers, LL.D. 2/6

TALES FOR TRAVELLERS. Selected from Chambers’s Papers for the People. 2 volumes, each 2/6

Containing twelve tales by the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, George Cupples, and other well-known writers.